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GREAT LAKES (NNS) -- A leadership team from Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Research and Engineering Division, Orlando, Florida, toured Recruit Training Command May 31 through June 2, to gain a better understanding of recruit training.
NAWCTSD shares resources and leverages expertise in modeling, simulation and training for aviation, space, surface and subsurface platforms and ground vehicles and maintenance training with the Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, Army, Department of Justice and NASA. They are all part of the Florida Simulation Center and synergy is used to focus their research and development efforts on the practical application of these advanced technologies. Together they contain the largest concentration of simulation business in the world.
"We've been here for three days and I cannot express how impressed I am with the professionalism, the dedication and passion that the staff has here for turning these folks into real Sailors," said Mayard Zettler, director of research and engineering. "The mission for NAWCTSD is to provide training solutions to the U.S. Navy. This is what we're about, providing the systems that these young Sailors have used to learn their trade."
The group began their tour with Battle Stations 21 aboard USS Trayer (BST-21), a 210-foot Arleigh Burke-class destroyer simulator, the largest in the Navy.
Battle Stations 21 is the capstone event that culminates eight weeks of boot camp training. Each recruit must complete 17 scenarios during a 12-hour, overnight period. The scenarios encompass all training learned during boot camp from firefighting to preventing and stopping flooding in a ship compartment. There are also casualty evacuations, watch standing, loading and unloading supplies, and line handling.
Later that evening, the group had the privilege to actually go through BST-21 with the recruits to get a first-hand look at the scenarios.
"The young recruits' commitment to everything and their dedication to service for our country is so impressive," said John Owen, NAWCTSD. "All the training we saw and went through, their willingness to help each other and work with each other, their courage, it was just amazing all week long."
To see how recruits are trained in firefighting, the group toured the USS Chief, which has been in operation since 1990. Each recruit is given a basic orientation and starts with basic damage control. There are discussions about buoyancy, compartmentalization and how to find their way around the ship with the compartment identification number system. This training gives the recruits a basic understanding on why it is important to close a door or a hatch on board a ship.
The group was able to interact with recruits by attending the weekly pizza night for those recruits set to graduate the following day.
The guests also toured the USS Missouri, Small Arms Marksmanship Trainer (SAMT), where recruits learn to handle and fire the Navy's standard issue M9 Berretta pistol and the Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun as well as the USS Wisconsin, a live-fire range.
Wrapping up their visit, the group attended a recruit graduation ceremony (Pass-In-Review) where more than 900 recruits graduated from boot camp.
"We brought all of our Navy staff from NAWCTSD here so they can actually see the training systems that we have developed, designed, tested and evaluated and brought here to this particular training command and actually experience what the recruit trainers have along with the opportunity to go through some training side by side with them," said Jacqueline Foxx, senior systems engineer, NAWCTSD. "It was incredible. This was just fantastic and when we get back to NAWCTSD, I am certain that the people are all going to want to come out here."
Boot camp is approximately eight weeks and all enlistees into the U.S. Navy begin their careers at the command. Training includes physical fitness, seamanship, firearms, firefighting and shipboard damage control along with lessons in Navy heritage and core values, teamwork and discipline. About 30,000 to 40,000 recruits graduate annually from RTC and begin their Navy careers.
For more news from Recruit Training Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/rtc/.
| Date Taken: | 06.05.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 09.21.2018 09:13 |
| Story ID: | 293875 |
| Location: | NORTH CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, US |
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